Researchers at Northeastern University have said they were able to bypass — or “jailbreak” — existing safeguards in ChatGPT, Claude and Google’s Gemini to generate graphic self-harm and suicide instructions by telling models that the queries were “hypothetical” or for “academic” purposes. Highlight

“[T]hose were the mechanisms for gaining share, for preventing the emergence of new competitors, and for monetizing its search monopoly,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University.

The U.S.-India relationship “seemed poised to strengthen in Trump’s second term,” said Max Abrahms, a professor of political science at Northeastern University and a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. 

Experts like Barry Bluestone, a professor emeritus of political economy and the founding director of the Dukakis Center at Northeastern University seem to think these students are responsible for the Sept. 1 move-in date.

The judge presiding over the case before the ‘rocket docket’ — 81-year-old Leonie Brinkema — “could actually be persuaded that a divestment would work in that context,” said Elettra Bietti, a professor at Northeastern University.

“Each year has been different, so in some ways, this is more of the same,” Sam Scarpino, a professor of health sciences at Northeastern University, told The Guardian.

Psychologists suggest that sibling rivalry and attention-seeking behaviors are common as children navigate their roles within the family. Laurie Kramer, a professor at Northeastern University, notes that siblings between ages 4 and 8 can have up to eight fights an hour. 

Now, Big Tech companies facing antitrust lawsuits are likely to use the ruling to their advantage, said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “I think this gives an avenue, rightly or wrongly, for some of the other companies that are in the crosshairs to say that technology has made antitrust arguments irrelevant,” he […]

“There’s a reason Google’s stock jumped after this ruling was released,” said Christo Wilson, a Northeastern University computer science professor who has conducted research on Google’s monopoly. “It is a historic misfire that fails to meet the enormity of the finding that Google is a monopolist in online search.”  

“The standards are lax and can be manipulated by expert lawyers and creative manufacturers,” said David Simon, an associate law professor at Northeastern University who co-leads the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety. “In a variety of cases, devices are cleared and implanted in humans without ever having been tested on humans.”

“Domestic governance structure and international aid are very critical in a moment like the aftermath of this earthquake, and both are at a low point in Afghanistan at the moment,” said Daniel Aldrich, the director of the Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University.

While international agencies initially filled humanitarian gaps after the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021, “the longer we’re seeing the consequences of [President Donald Trump’s] attacks on international aid agencies and the withdrawal of the U.S. from so many of those frameworks, we’re seeing that those gaps remain unfilled,” said Daniel Aldrich, co-director of the Global Resilience […]